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WASHINGTON ' The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a boy expelled in 1998 for writing a poem about killing numerous classmates.

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While student journalists across the country struggle to retain their right to freedom of expression, some are receiving additional help from the most unlikely of places.

COLORADO ' The administrators who want to move on have prevailed over the parents who want to remember.

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CALIFORNIA ' The $4.35 million in damages awarded to a former Palisades Charter High School teacher for a sexual harassment claim against the district were simply too high, a state superior court judge ruled June 7.

In a decision that recognizes student free-expression rights, Judge Kenneth Freeman threw out the verdict against the Los Angeles Unified School District that resulted from comments published in an underground newspaper distributed on campus.

PENNSYLVANIA ' Rest is near for high school journalists who are concerned that their rights are at risk from the state board of education's red pen.

Call it the journalistic equivalent of doing the hokey-pokey: You put your good story in, you take your good story out.

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MINNESOTA -- The Minnesota Daily is still waiting for answers to a complaint it filed with the Minneapolis Police Department following a riot in April.

\n Four student journalists -- three photographers and a reporter -- were covering the NCAA hockey championships in Minneapolis and the riot that ensued after the University of Minnesota won.

NEW YORK -- Alumni staffers of The Daily Orange at Syracuse University are putting pressure on the administration to let the newspaper remain independent.

\n Stephen Cohen, founder and president of paper's alumni association, wrote a letter to Chancellor Kenneth Shaw asking that the administration maintain its commitment to having an independent paper.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An attempt to change a policy regarding free speech has been thwarted at Georgetown University.

LOUISIANA -- The Tiger Weekly, an independent student newspaper at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, sued the campus newspaper in state court in July, claiming the school's financial support of The Reveille created unfair competition for readers.

\n Tiger Weekly publisher Wayne Lewis said The Reveille is supposed to be used as a learning tool for the journalism program, but not as a tool to stop competition.